Man invents microbes that eat CO2Global warming curedBy Nick Booth: Thursday, 22 November 2007, 12:44 AMFIRST, THE GOOD NEWS. Boffins have invented a cure for global warming.The bad news is: the inventors are British, so they’ll have the devil’s own job getting venture capital. The even worse news is, they’re from academia, so they wouldn’t even know how to start to looking for funding.Some bright 12 year-old yank is probably bunking off high school to get the market clinching venture capital even as we speak.Carbon8 and Group Intellex both displayed inventions that could reverse the build up of green house gases, at a meeting of the Sustainable Technology Group this week.To the layman, both inventions do more or less the same thing. They eat greenhouse gases (namely Co2) and pass out something useful. Carbon8 uses Co2 to treat industrial waste and contaminated soils. This reduces CO2 to another form (such as bauxite) while rendering slags (as in the by product of steel treatment) into a non-toxic form that can be dumped cheaply.They eat carbon dioxide, and turn slags into landfill, you’ve got to love them.Inventor Dr Paula Carey said, "It’s very hard getting the investment in the UK. It’s hard finding anyone in venture capital who understands science."Meanwhile, David Brunnen, MD of Groupe Intellex on the other hand, thinks a lot smaller.His plan is to create jobs for microbial dolomites to eat atmospheric CO2. He intends to build massive homes for these dolomites, on land that is unsuitable for agriculture. With enough investment, he could build large-scale sites that could make a serious hole in the green house.Bloody microbes, coming over here, taking our jobs and living off the fat of our land. But you watch, if they want any venture capital they’ll go straight abroad. µ
Bloody microbes, coming over here, taking our jobs and living off the fat of our land. But you watch, if they want any venture capital they’ll go straight abroad
